Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Hardware

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Supercomputing-class resources:

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Bigben is a Cray XT3 MPP system. It has a peak teraflops of 20 teraflops.



Pople is an SGI Altix SMP machine with 768 cores and 1.5 Tbytes of shared memory.

Salk is an SGI Altix SMP machine with 144 cores and 288 Gbytes of shared memory, dedicated to biomedical research.

The Opteron Cluster
Codon and Bioinformatics

Codon and Bioinformatics are front ends to a twenty node cluster. Each compute node has two 1.4 GHz AMD Opteron processors and 4 Gbytes of memory.



PSC File Archiver) PSC File Archiver

golem.psc.edu, PSC's file archiver, is a combination tape-and-disk system with a total capacity of 2 Pbytes.

Front-end machines

Linux front end
Linux front end pscuxa is used to access the supercomputing-class machines and for mail. pscuxa is a 1.6GHz dual-CPU Opteron system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (resembling other Unix systems) and has 2GB of memory and 80GB of mirrored local disk space.